Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love Rides the Rails" is basically a melodrama and its plot somewhat resembles that of "The Golden Fleecer." The action centers around two swindlers who come to a small town and try to extract some railroad rights from a widow and her daughter. The two women fight back, and with the aid of the daughter's boy friend, are eventually successful in ridding the town of the crooks...
...Railroad and bus companies have a right to test the ICC ruling in the federal courts. After the Jan. 10 deadline, individual Negroes or the ICC may bring suits demanding compliance with the order. It may take years, in some cases, for appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court; but there is little doubt that the ICC and the courts are moving in the same direction...
PITTSBURGH: Rebuilt Golden Triangle, at junction of Allegheny (below) and Monongahela Rivers, replaced slum site of old shacks and railroad yards with park and airy buildings. part of an answer to a problem that has plagued most American cities with increasing insistency since the end of World War II. While suburbs have boomed, the business and residential hearts of cities have choked and decayed. Downtown areas, crowded with traffic, have withered and become blighted, cost more in municipal services (while returning less in taxes) and threatened cities with economic strangulation...
...wave of good news pushed Southern Railway and Delaware and Hudson to new highs for the year. At week's end, the Dow-Jones railroad index rose to 167.83, highest point since...
LOUIS E. WOLFSON, who has taken over a dozen companies in the past three years, is picking up another. Wolfson has bought 60,000 shares (40%) of St. Louis' Scullin Steel Co., a small foundry (1954 sales: $10,822,434) making steel castings for railroad cars and ships. Wolfson's buying has helped push up Scullin stock from 23 to 42½ per share...